different between sacrificial vs anthropomancy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacrifici?lis (“sacrificial”), from sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrificus (“sacrificial”), from sacrific? (“sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faci? (“do, make”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sæk.??.f??.?l/, /?sæk.??.f??.?l/

Adjective

sacrificial (not comparable)

1. Relating to sacrifice

   The old sacrificial well is still there, but animals aren't thrown into it to appease monsters anymore.

2. Used as a sacrifice.

   The sacrificial coating protects the hull, but because it takes the damage the hull doesn't, we must replace it annually.

   The ceremony involves the ritual slaying of a sacrificial lamb.

Derived terms

• sacrificially
• sacrificial anode

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacrifici?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?.k?i.fi.si?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sa.k?i.fi.si?al/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

sacrificial (masculine and feminine plural sacrificials)

1. sacrificial

Related terms

• sacrificar
• sacrifici

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacrifici?lis.

Adjective

sacrificial (plural sacrificiales)

1. sacrificial

Related terms

• sacrificar
• sacrificio

English

Etymology

anthropo- +? -mancy, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ánthr?pos, “man, mankind, human, humanity”) + ??????? (manteía, “divination”).

Noun

anthropomancy (uncountable)

1. divination by the interpretation of human sacrificial entrails.

Synonyms

• antinopomancy

Translations

References

• "Antinopomancy, [sic] by the entrails of men, women and children..." -- Gaule The Magastromancer xix, 1652

  "By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus. It is somewhat irksome, but thou wilt endure well enough, seeing thou art destined to be a cuckold." -- Works of Rabelais III. xxv, 1951

• anthropomancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• anthropomancy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• anthropomancy at OneLook Dictionary Search